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Alison Munson
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Ecologist (forest and urban); exploring plant traits and soil carbon stabilization. Mother of Camille. Prof (retired sort of) @universitelaval. Writer. No DMs =block= do you read?
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Tell cave troll Kim to go craw back into its cave and never come out
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

Swear in Adelita Grijalva. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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You don't have to be a bolshevik to support universal healthcare. Or a socialist. Just a decent human being who cares for other people and doesn't think that relieving suffering should depend on your ability to pay.
Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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The artist and his work.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Video of the Canadian Premier League soccer finals yesterday in #Canada 🤣🍁
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The word "evil" is often overused to describe people with whom we disagree. But I can find no other word to describe ICE agents seizing a day care teacher in front of young children. At an age when teachers are beloved, they will be traumatized by this - and lose trust in adults. Evil.
Chicago day care teacher arrested by ICE agents at preschool
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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this truly is the thing that brings me real joy because this is the piece that’s replicable everywhere. if enough of us show up, their millions of dollars in dark money, bribes and attack ads accomplish nothing. Mamdani is clearly a generational talent but he won’t be the only one we find if we look
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.

It didn't matter.

Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Inexplicably, the pro-ballroom vote failed to materialize last night
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Never had this happen before, but today my students came early to class to talk abt the election results. A reminder, I think, that people need hope, but they especially need it *in community*. A shared hope like this has the potential to take on a life of its own —to become truly transformative.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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It is horrific that they would do this (at all, but also) in front of children, and by the way, if she is an employee, this probably leaves the children below the required adult-to-child ratio at a day care. Spectacular failure of both critical thinking and human decency in immigration enforcement.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This lady is directing traffic for all the people who said they’d flee NYC if Mamdani won. 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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so it turns out that fascism is unpopular
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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“sure, these candidates won big, but what if they didn’t?” -NYT probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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If Andrew Cuomo is the right choice for fascist, right-wing billionaires, he’s the wrong choice for NYC.

This isn’t complicated.
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Juxtaposing Hurricane Melissa and the latest musing from Bill Gates. Powerful piece here from Christopher Hatch. Read through to the end for some killer writing: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/03/o...
A Category 5 correction to climate complacency
Around the same time as Melissa terrorized and killed people across the Caribbean, Bill Gates was publishing his own self-proclaimed “tough truths about climate.” Even setting his arguments aside for ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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"Extreme weather fueled by climate change Is adding to bird declines -- Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat." 🌏 therevelator.org/climate-chan...
Studies: Extreme Weather Fueled by Climate Change Is Adding to Bird Declines • The Revelator
Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations worldwide, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat.
therevelator.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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YES!!
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM